in the movie joyce below to see a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly george wesley to school until you can the socialist civility to go and. represent the colonel was such as this career treat. the. notorious american the security firm blackwater goes on trial but for overbilling the government and not for killing civilians in iraq and it's my claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on foreign missions. the norwegian intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted to deadly terrorist attacks acted alone but europe's growing it nationalistic mood is feeding fears of more violence elsewhere . recognizes that libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders and steps up the diplomatic offensive against colonel.

worldwide news a live from moscow this is r.t. i'm wrong receipt showing the infamous private security firm once known as blackwater is back in court this time though it's not over alleged killings in iraq and afghanistan but over claims that bill the washington too much for its services to former employees accused of claiming more than one hundred million dollars in expenses the company which is now known as z. provides more mercenaries for the u.s. in afghanistan than anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals its contractors were accused of gunning down seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad in two thousand and seven for which no one has been punished the company is due an even bigger role in afghanistan with the u.s. about. doubled its private army to replace the part of the troops meanwhile the un

it wants tighter control over mercenaries to protect human rights results he's got each account reports it's more convenient for the un us rather to use hired guns since the actions of slip under the radar. this iraqi man son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain fell to the ground between my feet on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy us professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill everyone they can see no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for their massacre to other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq and name synonymous now with her retaking one rights violations including torture rape and murder the us supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan

it's reported that human rights violations and even billings are committed by security firms on a regular basis point expand set to undermine call the show horses counterinsurgency efforts will start firing if anything that moves in general kill innocent afghans destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contractors. the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is set to grow dramatically us. so many of. the functions to these security companies they are not

related in the end not control and he says we're extremely concerned that what we are calling is for relation to be national in at the international hook so that . companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their kid it is saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable and so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so we're seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which those are actually criminal investigation or prosecution of set up. but experts say further privatization of war is convenient for the american government because among other reasons it doesn't have to justify the deaths of troops at home the president whoever the president may be can get us involved in

conflicts only using uniform forces to do the official fighting and then thousands and thousands of contractors to do the unofficial fighting that's under the radar screen that isn't covered by the media now here's a quote we cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions took on accountable contractors and of course that's what senator obama said before he became president but apparently as a president now he thinks differently. with the contractors wall in america's war is bound to increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice and vanish check out reporting from washington our team. well i mean i'm the mayor of the city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban it's the latest in a series of killings targeting the country's top officials earlier this month president karzai the half brother and his senior aide were gunned down in separate

attacks to talk more on this we're going to be joined by a former afghan. i thank you for joining us today are the attacks come as nato troops begin withdrawing from afghanistan is the timing of the attack significant do you think. naturally it. while it's normal to see the type of trend in the summer but the. transfer of security is just to the afghan forces and these these incidents are making one thing very vividly. visible and that is how does this transition take hold and whether the afghan security forces and the afghan responsible units would be ready to take over this this is a very very different war and i don't think we can define a definitive line both of which one can find success but nevertheless the

timing is very very important as you say the timing is very important here perhaps you think nato should reconsider pulling out obviously violence on the rise. i think there's no guarantee that this trend of nato transfer will continue smoothly i i can see. reversals a time in the future and perhaps certain provinces are so volatile and so critical that they may have to delays some of the transfers i don't think this will continue on as scheduled because we should not our parade on schedule as we should operate on realities on the ground here and those in washington and in europe should be secondary. should take a second place to reality and results on the ground but as we were just reporting the gradual u.s. military pullout and seeing

a swap with private contractors taking the place of troops it might seem to some of the u.s. wants to keep up permanent under the radar presence in afghanistan almost a clandestine long term agenda. well i think this is a very complicated slippery slope so to speak first of all the war itself is an ugly enough but to introduce vigilanteism into war it makes it even more dangerous especially in foreign lands it will not be good for i ne country who wants to state as a strategic ally of the not like i'm free and then keep private armies in that country i don't think this will bode well our or good on the afghan impression when when you talk about strategic alliance with the united states i think it should be an alliance based on the regular. hounds of both presence of our allies troops in our country not vigilantes and under the ground and under the radar

contract it's interesting how you say it what might be the afghan impression with these private contractors because allegations that these mercenaries abused him and rights and killed local people in iraq and afghanistan the accusations have been around for years with such a station do you think locals could find themselves gravitating towards the taliban . one of the problems that we have had been in the past ten years it hasn't been the strength of the collarbone that has gravitated to the equation towards them but it has been the weakness and the ill fated decision making process both in afghanistan and elsewhere regarding up on the stand so i think it's very important that we are very careful and measured with what we do because the civilian population and population is ignored both by war and by civilian reconstruction and that's what counts but unfortunately perera he's there every

time there's a war is where priorities during wars are on success not on civilian people who are really. main thing that we should pay attention to and if i may jump in here i do apologize we're running low on time but you work in the afghan government is president karzai is he strong enough to oppose the taliban on his own business influence and power stretch wide enough in the country to you. know no government whether it's a are on the other government is capable of fighting the taliban alone because it's not just the taliban it's the region you're talking about pakistan you're talking about iran it's it's the drug mafia it's their war mafia in the region and it's a complicated sophisticated puzzle so mr karzai government and the present the afghan institutions are not capable of taking on this thing that is going on right

now all right. thank you very much. always intelligence services says there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or elsewhere and thirty two year olds who were killing seventy six people last friday claims he was part of why the mission his lawyer greg is insane and didn't know what he was doing because art is lore and reports his immigration message is one that has triggering a chilling rather those are all across europe. ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to prevent the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned great pics horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups

express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say are responsible because they allowed immigration happen and effectively pushed the scribe to the edge it's a cry that many feel is not being heard by european governments as people show their discontent increasingly for previously marginal anti immigration parties joining street movements like the mc islamic english defense league. you'll have groups who are satisfied in the real hope of other groups who see that the governments are not doing enough they are not discussing the issues enough. in this going forward in the future i think this is normally a tactical bring this topic into the center of the attention again and they will force. public focus on these issues are going to move

towards nationalism is pound european as well as the b.n.p. making. gains in the u.k. holland's controversial good builders now leads the country's third largest political party running on an anti islam platform nationalists the truth in redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the vote the danish people's party has also embraced anti immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and sweden there's grassroots support for prefix to disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his video manifesto one you cheap and his group knights templar became a popular search topic on google but i'm quite concerned that there are a lot of individuals. privates writing in his manifesto will resonate with.

i'm very concerned that you will see other people copycatting these types of attacks in the coming months or coming years politicians including germany's angela merkel and britain's david cameron have already said multiculturalism has failed now the leaders of western europe have to stop their disenfranchised cities becoming a breeding ground for far right. who lit the fuse and those brave it claims to have been involved with the english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls a wave of islamic the case said the e.t.l. denies the political analysts are saying if the attacks in norway don't prompt an honest appraisal of the issues surrounding immigration that could further frustrate the european public and create more space for potentially violent far right groups to expanded all over europe your and r.t.

runs it. here in moscow and with our to your shorty report on i faced. theda fueling a friendship we are in kiev where a church leaders from a former soviet states gather together to mark ancient russia's adoption of christianity. where money grows on trees that dodgy disaster cleanup firms in russia's forests who are making cash among the ass. britain are now officially recognized as libya's rebels as that legitimate government that has expelled colonel gadhafi diplomats is also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels tripoli insists it will not enter peace talks to end the four months long civil war until nato stops its airstrikes and u.n. talks with the rebels in benghazi also make little progress toward a cease fire professor mark almond from oxford university things there won't be the dramatic collapse of cafes regime which nato continues to expect. traditionally

britain has recognized governments not on the basis that will be like them or are they control the territory was. lost control of parts of libya clearly the rebels could control it yet so this was a study in a new precedent for the industry the other problem is that the rebels are on the ground cintron stall even with the nato bombing raids and if you remember when this started more than four months ago we were told it would be martial months and source spec really what we've british forces doing is really having a symbolic time to try to show that somehow or other we're still in charge of the situation in the situation is increasingly unpredictable the real problem here is was less they have a lucky strike because they've tried so times are employed can. they see what they thought was the chances are that there won't be a dramatic collapse of his regime survived the first shock in fact and so now the

question is will the rebels have sufficient the source and. sean to threaten once more. too difficult to avoid the conclusion of the crisis and abuse in certain great fields of how to handle all the problems has been that the rebels thought very quickly with this whole who will. turn all that switch into money for it will fuel the tool for if they feel they need money to maintain a false because they they need money for both social services over also we need money really surprise support one create one subterraneous for this concept is feed side pays for most nights and has a lot about carol who are paying his boardroom to look for the rebels. in return for cash and of course a. plate of hunt around this is one of the reasons why girls are. less motivated maybe does a page about it should be able to resist rather more productively and paris and london and the symbolic decision to. kick out the door. and ask someone to go deep

in. crisis. mode. here with r.t. live from moscow in a few minutes or kareena said with a business with an hour some other international news headlines for you the white house is threatening that president obama could veto the republican debt limit plan speaker john boehner wants to cut public spending and raise the limit congress has less than one week to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating the fall of obama blames republicans for stalling and refusing to accept a balanced approach. the international community has condemned because of those decision to send troops to be served populated north saying it's stoking ethnic tension one of policeman has died in clashes with local serbs who were mounting a road block as part of a cross border trade embargo around six hundred thousand ethnic serbs live in the area but refuse to recognize cause of as authority after it unilaterally declared independence from serbia in two thousand and eight. religious leaders from post

soviet nations are uniting in ukraine to celebrate the christian eyes ation of ancient russia ukraine's capital kiev used to be the center of the ancient state when it turned to orthodoxy more than a thousand years ago. he is following the colorful festivities. the head of the russian orthodox church blocking out your real has a right to the ukrainian capital he have to take part in the celebrations along with his counterpart from georgia and the head of the russian orthodox church in ukraine. it's been exactly one thousand and twenty three years since this part of the world adopted orthodox christianity now when. you're real arrived at a solemn liturgy in front of the. monument in key of the central monuments dedicated to the baptism to the adoption of christianity in this part of the world he was greeted by tens of thousands of people who were chanting that. is the real

well clearly this shows that the the attitude towards the russian in ukraine is still very warm and he is being greeted here with much respect lately kiev has been named as one of the single capitals of the russian orthodox church along with most go and st petersburg it is interesting because key of is of course capital of a sovereign state of ukraine and this means that the russian orthodox church goes beyond borders to unite the clergy and the space it is a large scale celebration which is being held in the capitals of ukraine belarus and russia kiev minsk and mosco were understand that the celebration events will be happening within the next couple of days with concerts large concerts culminating in the festivities in the three capitals. reporting right well you can always i had to come for more of the news you need all around the clock what if you right now

investigates the rise in suicides in post tsunami japan thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of the disaster. and the russian a man hunt for husbands with women outnumbering men by millions we report on an unusual matrimony. rent a job at the heart. of a green forest are seeing some people carve out a shady career illegal logging is growing as a boy explains the exploitation begins when the troll. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good serve and the flames terrorizing the country's forest every summer some unscrupulous entrepreneurs have come to use it as a smokescreen for illegal logging the problem reached such proportions that even

the government has realized the chips are down in some regions conceded at risk of heavy forest fires illegal logging is thriving they cut down more than all through oist and the area is set ablaze to cover their growing and we can determine how much logging the sanctions and how much is actually cut the. fires hurricanes flooding come what may illegal loggers are using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these woods new st petersburg thousand the path of the major twister last year there through thousands of hectares of mature forest many more were chopped afterwards by swindlers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup of them. got a permit that allows them to take away three truckloads of debris a job that could be done in a few days but they are permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can easily get stretched. basi money doesn't grow on trees but russia which possesses about one

fifth of the world's forest resources the fires the old wisdom well the government can turns that the illegal logging cons for just a few percent of all timber production environmental activists say the keel of the problem is much greater if you. believe that twenty to twenty five percent of all logging in russia is carried out illegally the figure is higher than a decade ago and it's still rising on a par with the amazon rain forest the vast siberian greenery is often referred to as belongs of the planet at close examination though seeds are the lovat at least most of the illegal say deer in timber goes to china and while the locals all the really see the impact of deforestation on their own lives they see their only other option would be far worse. you know it's illegal what you're doing you know i know it's illegal but there are no other jobs here. that the government officials

who are to turn to for can't see this thing is doing everything it can to combat illegal logging new legislation has just come into force the number of forest rangers will be increased given the meantime the chiefs are still flowing where they may according to our experience if the bates inability to see the wood for the trees that is one of the main reasons why illegal logging in russia is so widespread and why it is so prone to any sort of punitive action while the federal authorities may condemn the practice all they want the current economic and regulatory environment ultimately makes plan bethink chopping of truth from a look and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way. artsy. and a while environmentalist battle to keep russian trees safe for arty talks the american astronauts who inspired the movement to protect the entire earth with one very

special picture that's coming your way after creative thought the latest business. hello welcome to our business report could have you with me russia's leading gold producer point is called has been taken over by its london based subsidiary called the new company under the name of point is called international started trading on the london stock exchange on wednesday as love there from in t.x. capital says the i knew full reverse takeover could impact value this is a reverse takeover. because i gold which is a limited company has gone to authorize these parents which is fairly unusual and it looks like it wants to continue doing that as a process to expand going forward this kind of reverse takeover can dampen shareholder value in the in the near term and shareholder performance as well and having looked at the recent performance of. gold there has been underperforming as

royals fairly considerably despite the price of gold increase of the upside. russia is planning to put fifty percent of its oil and champion ross yeah up for sale next year it could become the biggest privatization deal in the nation's history under current budget conditions this stake is valued at fourteen billion dollars problem it says it is also weighing plans to sell its entire stake up seventy five percent two thousand and seventeen but also plans to divest its holdings and on and produce and b. to be back raising around thirty six billion dollars. now take a look at the markets in the red light sweet is moving up eighty cents is our breath calibur how the dollar prices remain under pressure as a result of washington right over u.s. debts and. now let's have a look at some of the markets e.u. eyes lower with washington's debt problems affecting investor confidence stocks in london a down that lloyds banking group plays and world bank of scotland after goldman

sachs downgraded the european banking sector shares of insurers are also down i've even dropped two percent at all group one percent illegal in general to one side. here in russia markets are in positive territory with the r.t.s. accounting almost half a percent this hour investors are cautious aborting risky moves ahead of economic reports and critical decision making the bugles. of russia may have plenty of oil but that doesn't show. motorists are having to contend with shortages and rising prices the problems have been put down to a high tax judy and a greater profitability of selling fuel brought new rules on the quality of that also helping them pack the government is even considering extending production of low grade class to petrol until december two thousand and twelve the russian gasoline union says incentives for owners to upgrade production are being.

refuted if you are so there are a few stimuli being implemented in. it's currently it's a g.'s very to the high the level of quality to lower the g.t. the difference isn't big around three hundred to four hundred roubles according to the clocks now there is talk of increasing this difference to two thousand or three thousand roubles plus it's fair to watch those who have already invested in upgrading their production which will give them through the stimulus for further development that's it for now the back of more.

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